必须推翻的，是你的执着

The Buddha once said, “I do not argue with worldly people, but they argue with me.” It means that the Buddha understands where people’s desire and attachment come from. But when people hear the Buddha speak of impermanence, emptiness and not-self，they refuse to accept and constantly raise objections. Actually, it is no surprise that people object since the Buddha’s viewpoints are something they have never heard of or thought about before and are entirely contrary to their usual way of thinking. So object they must. Still, truth is truth. Worldly people can object all they want at first, but eventually they will have to accept it. By worldly people, I do not mean the atheists or the materialists, but people like us who either have not yet learned Buddhadharma or attained realization of emptiness. It is in fact our very own established ideas that are opposing the new perspective.

佛也说过：“我不跟世间人争论，但世间人要跟我争论。”意思就是说，佛能理解世俗人的贪欲和执着，而世俗人一旦听到佛讲无常、空性、无我就不能接受，就要提出反驳。其实反驳是正常的，因为这些知识不但是他们从来没有听过、没有想过的事情，而且和他们平时的想法也大相径庭，所以肯定是要反对的。但反对归反对，世上究竟的真理只有一个，世俗人首先会反对，最后还是要接受的。这里讲的世俗人并非指无神论者或唯物主义者，而是指还没有学佛、没有证悟空性的我们，就是我们所持的陈旧观念在反对这些新的知识。

Thus, what needs to be overthrown is our steadfast clinging to the belief of distinct, self-existing phenomena, not the standpoints of the atheists or some other philosophies. Once that clinging is gone, nothing that others preach can impair our true view anymore. For no matter how eloquent they are, they cannot affect someone who has realized emptiness. The means by which one can thoroughly destroy clinging to the idea of self-existing phenomena is to generate renunciation, arouse bodhicitta and cultivate the critical view of emptiness.

所以，我们要推翻的，并非外道或无神论的观点，而是要推翻自己的执着。自己的执着一旦消灭，任何外道的论点都无法伤害我们，不论他们说得如何天花乱坠，对一个已经证悟的人来说都是徒然，没有任何影响。能彻底推翻这些执着的方法，就是出离心、菩提心，以及至关重要的空性见解。

Why is realization of emptiness so powerful? It is because the cause of our endless rebirth in samsara is not something external but our own views and attachment，a kind of thought actually. And thoughts can be overthrown, but not all of them. Those that are formed on a solid base with logical reasoning are very difficult to be overthrown.

为什么空性有这样的能力呢？因为，导致我们流转轮回的根源不是外在的某种物质，而是内在的观点和执着，是一种念头，而念头是可以被推翻的。但也不是所有念头都可以被推翻，那些有根据的、合乎逻辑的念头就很难被推翻。而我执是有根据、有理性的吗？并非如此。